Lighting Artist Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn talks Personal Mythology, LED Art Design and Innovation

Today’s guest on the show is Lighting Artist Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn. In this episode we talk about growing up with artists in the family, design school, pop culture, early hip-hop, street wear, cities being the coral reefs of the human population, personal mythologies, being black adjacent, including yourself, political exclusion, gentrification and God walking out of the room.

Keep in Touch with Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn

1. 1. Website: https://www.studio1thousand.com/
   2. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/studio1thousand/

Show Notes

1. Bushwick, Brooklyn
2. Seattle, Washington
3. Studio 1Thousand LED Art Design and Innovation
4. Museum of the City of New York (A staff favorite of New York Said)
5. Moiré Interference Pattern
6. How to make a Moiré Interference Pattern (YouTube Video)
7. The staircase at the Museum of the City of New York marble stairs- Stairs are back for sharing ideas!
8. The cross pollination of ideas- too much efficiency causes the loss of organic idea generation & collaboration.
9. Detail: The Brilliance Behind Cooper Joseph Studio’s Starlight by Joseph Ward
10. In Focus: Starlight: A precise constellation of LEDs takes shape and becomes the focal point for the Museum of the City of New York’s lobby by Aaron Seward
11. Starlight
12. Chris Cooper, AIA
13. Wendy Evans Joseph, FAIA
14. Perot Family Offices, Dallas Texas
15. The experience should only be experienced with the light.
16. The story of American Dream
17. Do you know the family story behind Seattle’s beloved baseball mitt? by Marcie Sillman
18. Tsutakawa Family Profiled on KUOW by Maiko Kobayashi
19. Constantin Brâncuși Sculptor
20. Brâncuși Sculpture Images
21. Isamu Noguchi American-Japanese artist
22. Noguchi Sculpture Images
23. Yayoi Kusama Japanese Artist
24. Yayoi Kusama Art Images
25. Did Yayoi Kusama conduct the first gay wedding? (It is Pride Month in New York so we thought we’d share this article too)
26. Bronze splinters really hurt
27. So they broke a 350 piece of Japanese pottery…what had happened was…
28. Wabi-sabi
29. Japanese Pottery
30. “Do the work, be successful for yourself aesthetically but don’t place too much value on it” Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn
31. Be prideful of your work, but be humble.
32. Art World People vs. Artists
33. Jeff Staples New York Said Episode: Jeff Staple talks Streetwear Ambassador, 20 Years of Staple Design and Reed Space
34. George Tsutakawa Painter, Sculptor
35. Modesty counts
36. Noguchi Coffee Table
37. Design Within Reach Noguchi Coffee Table
38. Aquemini Album – Outkast– Slump Track on YouTube (Baby Gotta Eat)
39. Artspeak and artist alignment
40. Neurological connections in creatives
41. Asperger Syndrome
42. What Is Autism?
43. Dave Chapelle Gayle King Interview (Dave Chappelle on fame, leaving “Chappelle’s Show” and Netflix special)
44. “I was talkin‘ to a guy… he basically said to me that comedy is a reconciliation of paradox,” Chappelle told “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King. “And I think that that was airreconcilable moment for me. That I was in this very successful place, but the emotional content of it didn’t feel anything like what I imagined success should feel like. It just didn’t feel right.”
45. Comedy is the resolution of disparate concepts coming together.
46. “A lot of my work is juxta-positional.”  Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn
47. Over connectedness
48. The difference between basic and minimal
49. Why Intellectuals Love to Take the Kardashians Seriously
50. To Our Daughter Kylie Jenner Video on YouTube
51. Tumblr
52. The Blue Planet
53. “Cities are the coral reefs of the human population.“  This is a part of my personal mythology. Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn
54. Sanctuary Cities
55. It took a longtime to call myself a New Yorker.
56. Queens, NY
57. Monoculture breeds conservatism which is dangerous.
58. Brooklyn, NY
59. New Yorkers are not friendly, but they are helpful.
60. Pigeons and Hawks in New York
61. Look out for the people who are directly adjacent. It is really important to look out for people here.
62. Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act
63. Small town community
64. Black Adjacent and Adjacent
65. Sarah Lawrence College
66. Do not live an undiscovered life.
67. The challenging times of defining your identity.
68. Ripple Bar
69. Crown Heights, Brooklyn
70. Learn your New York history to respect the people who live there.
71. Earsnot Graffiti Artist
72. alife
73. Only NY
74. Supreme
75. G Shock
76. ComplexCon
77. The low barrier to entry
78. Indie Bands
79. Gentrification
80. I Am –Nas 3rd Album
81. Illmatic Full Album
82. Nevermind
83. Deltron 3030 Full Album
84. Ready to Die The Notorious B.I.G.
85. The Score
86. DJ Bruce Lee
87. DJ 1000
88. Rakim – The 18th Letter (Always and Forever) + Lyrics Youtube Video
89. Blackalicious
90. Hip Hop Music In New York
91. When doing research you should learn about origin sources
92. The Roots
93. DJ Qbert
94. DJ Stretch Armstrong
95. DJ Dirty Harry
96. Hot Waxx Music Store on Jamaica Ave
97. Beat Street Records on Fulton
98. Fat Beats
99. Serato
100. “I love neon…it is evocative in a historical sense.”  Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn
101. Infinity Mirrors
102. “Light art is intrinsically technical.” Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn
103. The more precise more it costs.
104. Ideas are expensive.
105. OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
106. Luck favors the prepared.
107. Go out there and make opportunities for yourself.
108. You have to go out there and get it in NY.
109. Whether or not people are altruistic?
110. The acceleration of the commodification of creativity & culture.
111. Prioritizing commerce over everything else.
112. When you bring money into the picture, God walks out the room.
113. In Conversation: Quincy Jones by David Marchese in Vulture
114. Monetizing creativity
115. Plenty to learn from other people.
116. Thank you Sophia Wallace for the connect!
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